Meaning of NOVICE
| Pronunciation: | | 'nâvis
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- [n] someone new to a field or activity
- [n] someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows
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| | Synonyms: | | beginner, initiate, novitiate, tiro, tyro |
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| | See Also: | | abecedarian, apprentice, cub, entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, landlubber, landsman, learner, lubber, neophyte, newcomer, prentice, religionist, religious person, rookie, starter, tenderfoot, trainee, unskilled person | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Nov"ice\, n. [F., from L. novicius, novitius, new, from
novus new. See {New}, and cf. {Novitious}.]
1. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling;
one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a
beginner; a tyro.
I am young; a novice in the trade. --Dryden.
2. One newly received into the church, or one newly converted
to the Christian faith. --1 Tim. iii. 6.
3. (Eccl.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks
or nuns, as a probationist. --Shipley.
No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. --Chaucer.
\Nov"ice\, a.
Like a novice; becoming a novice. [Obs.]
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| | Related Terms: | | abbess, abecedarian, alphabetarian, amateur, apprentice, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, canoness, catechumen, clergywoman, colt, conventual, cub, deb, debutant, entrant, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, inductee, infant, initiate, lady superior, learner, mother superior, neophyte, nestling, new boy, newcomer, novitiate, nun, postulant, prentice, prioress, probationer, probationist, proselyte, punk, raw recruit, recruit, religieuse, rookie, secular canoness, sister, student, superioress, tenderfoot, the reverend mother, trainee, tyro, undergraduate |
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